Greg Sargent has found out something very interesting: The House GOP leadership hopes to force Dems into an awkward vote on the plan to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York, a leadership aide tells me. The idea: If the House Dem leadership brings a big scheduled appropriations bill up for a vote this week, […]
Somehow the Ohio GOP thinks they are entitled to access to the phone numbers, addresses and email addresses of educators in Ohio: Ohio’s Republican Party recently requested the names, home addresses, phone numbers and e-mails of all licensed educators in the state’s database. The Ohio Education Association, a teachers union, obtained a temporary restraining order […]
This is one that I didn’t see coming: Three prominent conservatives warned in a joint statement against Republican “scaremongering” on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying the prison in Thomson, Illinois would be fine to handle them. Former Republican Congressman and Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist, […]
Every time a microphone finds its way in front of Sarah Palin, you can be assured some crazy talk will transpire. She has essentially become the conspiracy theorist of the GOP: Sarah Palin didn’t allow press at her speech Friday at a Wisconsin Right to Life fundraising banquet, and attendees were barred from bringing cell […]
The lack of maturity by the House GOP is on full exhibit today as they debate healthcare reform. Here’s a compilation put together by Think Progress of the GOP trying to silence women lawmakers today: Here’s something that isn’t childish – people will die while they Republicans pull these games because they don’t have healthcare. […]
This is a priceless move by several House Republicans yesterday: When it’s a choice between strengthening the Patriot Act, or showing up for the Tea Party Patriots, what’s a GOP lawmaker to do? We’ll give you one guess… Several Republican members of Congress yesterday blew off votes on the signature anti-terror legislation of the post […]
Now we have Michael Steele taking on Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh – the true GOP leadership: RNC Chairman Michael Steele endorsed moderate Assemblywoman Dede Scozzafava (R-NY) in the NY-23 special election before national conservative leaders — like Dick Armey, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin — forced Scozzafava out in favor of right-wing […]
Just reading Eric Erickson’s post on RedState trying to spin NY-23 into a great victory, I can’t help but notice his closing: For all intents and purposes, NY-23 is a trial run for Florida. And in Florida, the conservative candidate is operating inside the GOP. If John Cornyn and the NRSC do not want to […]
It was just a year ago we kept hearing news of John McCain using famous songs for his campaign without the express written permission of the copyright holder. It seems like that practice is trickling down through the ranks of the GOP and now we have New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie as the latest […]
The word ‘shall’ is the new talking point of the GOP when it comes to the healthcare bill. It started this morning with John Boehner on CNN talking about the word ‘shall’ appearing in the healthcare bill a couple of thousand times. It became on obvious talking point when George Will repeated it on This […]